If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
BEVERLY CLEARYWe didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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